Member postings for Ady1

It's all practice and experience

"measure twice cut once"

But getting there is a pita

I multi-measure a lot because those digi calipers can be a bit wayward

I also judge the cut manually by eye and "feel" because sometimes the gadgets just don't give you the bigger picture

Edited By Ady1 on 26/05/2020 10:07:10

Hagglunds lol

We had their hydraulic cranes on one ship, omg

They always cost an arm and a leg 'dem things

You may get lucky and find a good ex-employee/tradesman, like with roofing/plumbing etc who charges sensible prices

Maybe if you you look for "refurbished" motors

Welcome to the nuthouse dude

If you put your lathe pictures into your personal album space you will get more responses

**LINK**

GL

As a rank amateur stick weilder I have used both the Lidl transformer and the inverter welders

The inverter welder gives off almost no smoke compared to the transformer one and is far more reliable

The transformer one tripped quite a lot, the inverter hasn't missed a beat

They were like night and day for me

Sparking up seems to depend a lot on the rods, I always do a pre-heat sparkup because most of my runs only last a few seconds and I need a first time start

I have two different parkside chargers under my pooter desk and both are the two contact type

If your lathe is up to it, backgear and a 5% cobalt tool (M35)

One of my neighbours now has a plastic front garden

plastic lawn, plastic flowers

They must hate me, I like the chaos of nature and my lawn is wonky

The sparrows were feeding their fledglings on it when I got back from the dogwalk today

Edited By Ady1 on 22/05/2020 14:01:02

American companies always treat workers badly

If a US company is about to take your company over the best policy is to quit the Friday before, before they get at your pension pot

Then ask them to rehire you as a new slave on Monday AM

"Turning between centres" is one of the most difficult things you can do on a hobby lathe

Square stock makes it even more awkward

All I can say is for roughing down use a live centre but you MUST use a dead centre for those critical final accurate cuts

I sometimes use an extended dead centre at the chuck end, it projects just far enough forwards to push stock away from the chuck surface, then I secure the dead centre at the tailstock end, then with the stock locked between the two dead centres, I close the chuck jaws

GL

Some of those jokes sites are hilarious

Search for mathematics jokes, statistics jokes etc

I never really notice much negative in here, it's very civilised and tolerant in this place

Out on the netty it's a jungle, I ceased all contact with any human in any manner or form on the world of tanks site within 24 hours of joining and starting to play

That was well over a year ago, I still play every day though

omg they're horrible to each other, it's like primary three stuff meets lord of the flies

Little boys are made of frogs and snails and puppy dogs tails

Edited By Ady1 on 21/05/2020 14:19:26

The one I remember was some final pictures from someone who didn't make it as the ash flow approached at speed

All very complicated and a big jump into the dark for a new user

I downloaded gigabytes of stuff and tried it out before opting for the freebie Designspark Mechanical

**LINK**

GL

Inspirational stuff fizzy

Looks fantastic, a fantastic job

Well done you

Still using my 80A Lidl inverter stick unit

Its seems to penetrate to a couple of mill with a 1.6 stick and welds steel to decent quality cast iron

I wouldn't use it for life or death stuff lol but for model engineering scale stuff it seems to be sufficient for glueing metal together

I've tried to justify getting a sooper dooper welder but it's been really reliable for doing basic jobs and I don't need high penetration for any of the stuff I do, at least not so far anyway

So there will definitely be a winner this year

(John would appreciate the humour)

Just tell him you've left everything to the dog and cat home

cz bender

**LINK**